ANTS 2.1 (February 2025)#

For a full list of changes see the release ticket MOSRS #2325.

Features#

  • MOSRS #2420 A latitude weighted search method is now available making use of the KDTree search algorithm introduced in ANTS 2.0. With this option enabled, points of similar latitudes are preferentially selected over points at different latitudes.

Bugs fixed#

  • MOSRS #2381 The cache location for cartopy data is now configurable via an environment variable ANTS_CARTOPY_CACHE.

  • MOSRS #2383 Fixed a bug where in some cases the merge routine for two datasets with identical coordinates resulted in different coordinates for the merged cube.

  • MOSRS #2010 ANTS is now consistent with iris in identifying depths in F03 ancillary files.

Deprecations#

  • MOSRS #2401 The load interface has been moved from ants.fileformats to ants.io.load. As part of this ticket all support for UGRID in ANTS has been removed: all UGRID functionality has been replaced by UG-ANTS.

Infrastructure#

  • MOSRS #2501 The rose-stem test suite has now been upgraded to be cylc 8 native.

  • MOSRS #2414 nccmp is now included in the ANTS environment.

  • MOSRS #1922 A sample application has been added to contrib to provide a template to follow when adding new applications.

  • MOSRS #2459 KGOs are no longer included as part of the ANTS repository. KGOs are now generated on a per platform basis, for instructions see Managing KGOs.

Documentation#

ANTS 2.1 includes a major documentation rewrite as part of MOSRS #2362. Improvements to the documentation include: